Howdy! I noticed that racer
doesn't seem to build with the stable Rust release. I'm not very interested in running nightly as such (I don't want to use any cutting edge features) but I do want to have advanced IDE features in my editor. Do I simply have to bite the bullet and switch to nightly if I want to use racer?
Alternatively you can use the rust language server, as far as I remember it's stable since 1.30ish.
It seems to use racer as a dependency.
Does adding the RLS as a component via rustup fail with an error?
Anyway, you can compile racer with nightly and still use it for stable and beta projects.
Excellent to hear I can compile racer with nightly and still use the stable toolchain! Please tell me how to build racer using nightly and then have it around for stable/beta. I have no idea what I'm doing.
How are you attempting to install it? If you're using rustup
the following command should work with stable rust:
rustup component add rls rust-analysis rust-src
See GitHub - rust-lang/rls: Repository for the Rust Language Server (aka RLS)
It doesn't seem like there's a documented way of doing this without rustup, it may require manually compiling it with nightly.
Answering my own question, after much experimentation:
rustup
allows you to install more than one toolchain, and to switch easily between them. The correct method, presuming one already has stable
installed, is:
rustup toolchain install nightly
rustup default nightly
cargo install racer
rustup default stable
This will, in sequence, install the nightly
toolchain, switch to it, install racer, and then switch back to stable.
Edited to add:
As @Hyeonu explains below, you can also build off a non-default toolchain. So an even simpler solution (assuming you are on stable
) is:
rustup toolchain install nightly
cargo +nightly install
The +nightly
tells cargo
to build using the nightly
toolchain without needing to switch to it.
You can cargo +nightly install racer
to achieve same result.
Thank you! I knew that there had to be a better way!! Does that require that nightly
already be installed?
I believe so, but nightlies always installed in my machine so I can't be sure though
BTW, thanks so much for your answer! You understood what I was asking and gave me clear instructions, which is really helpful for a newcomer.
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